Made to Break

One of the best books of 2014 -*Flavorwire, Entropy Magazine
Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends-three men and two women-head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They've been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.

After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves.

With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.

"Made to Break, D. Foy's debut novel, snaps. Literary, cinematic... [Foy] is a writing school of one, and Made to Break ushers his literary energies into categorical existence." -The Daily Beast

Autorentext

D. Foy is the author of the novels Made to Break, Patricide, and Absolutely Golden (which in 2018 was also published in France). His stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Salon*, *The Millions, Hazlitt, Electric Literature, BOMB, The Literary Review, and the **Georgia Review, among many others, and have been included in the books Laundromat, A Moment's Notice, and Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial. He is an editor at 7.13 Books.

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• One of the best books of 2014 ?Flavorwire, Entropy Magazine
  Two days before New Years, a pack of five friends?three men and two women?head to a remote cabin near Lake Tahoe to celebrate the holidays. They've been buddies forever, banded together by scrapes and squalor, their relationships defined by these wild times.

After a car accident leaves one friend sick and dying, and severe weather traps them at the cabin, there is nowhere to go, forcing them to finally and ultimately take stock and confront their past transgressions, considering what they mean to one another and themselves.

With some of the most luminous and purple prose flexed in recent memory, D. Foy is an incendiary new voice and Made to Break, a grand, episodic debut, redolent of the stark conscience of Denis Johnson and the spellbinding vision of Roberto Bolaño.

"Made to Break, D. Foy's debut novel, snaps. Literary, cinematic... [Foy] is a writing school of one, and Made to Break ushers his literary energies into categorical existence." ?The Daily Beast